Improvement in removable book-covers



0. H. DRAKE. Removable Book-Cover.

Patented Mar. 18, 1879.

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N4 PETERS. PNuTo-UTHOQRAPHER, WASHINGTON a Q UNITED STATES PATENT()FFlIGE.

CHARLES H. DRAKE, OF SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H.DOUTY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN REMOVABLE BOOK-COVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,404, dated March18, 1879; application filed August 8, 1878. r

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. DRAKE, of Shamokin, in the county ofNorthumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andImproved Removable Book-Cover; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing bad to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which-- Figure 1 is a view of the contents or fillingof the book with one of the outer leaves or sides thrown back. Fig. 2 isa view-of the cover with both sides thrown back. Fig. 3 are details ofthe metal strips and rod for connecting the cover and filling. Fig. 4.is an edge view of the connected cover and filling, with one side insection.

My invention relates to certain improvements in removable book-covers ofthat class in which the back and sides may be together disconnected fromthe filling or contents, so that said contents may be removed and filedaway, and a new set of pages or contents supplied to the old cover.

The improvement consists in providing the outer sides or stiff leaves ofthe cover with inwardly-projecting eyes or staples, and the sides of theremovable contents with grooved metal strips having transverse slotsadapted to reeeit e said staples, so that when the outer covering isapplied to the back and sides of the contents the staples projectthrough the slots of the strips, and the outer covering is secured tothe contents by a longitudinal rod running through the portion of thestaples projecting through the sides of the filling or contents, ashereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the outer cover, in the stiff sides ofwhich are incorporated metal strips B, Fig. 3, having staples or eyes a.These strips are securely riveted to the sides of the cover, with thestaples projecting inwardly, as shown in Fig. 2.

0 represents the filling of pages or contents of the book, which is alsoprovided with stiff sides, to which, upon the inside, are riveted metalstrips 1). These strips have a longitudinal groove in the middle, andare provided with short transverse slots 1), adapted to receive thestaples a of the outer cover.

Now, in applying the removable cover A it is fitted to the filling 0 sothat the staples a of the cover register withand pass through the slotsb in the strip attached to the filling, in which position the outercover and filling of pages are securely locked by a rod, E, which isslid lengthwise into the groove of strip D, and through the projectingeyes or staples of the outer cover.

For removing the cover, all that is necessary is to slide the rod E outof the groove, and the parts are immediately separated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A removablebook-cover provided with inwardly-projecting staples or eyes a, incombination with the filling or contents, having attached to its outersides the slotted strips D, together with a locking-rod, E, arranged toslide through the staples when projected through the slots of saidstrip, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES H. DRAKE.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. GAsKINs,

ISAAC GOLDsCHMIDT.

